Lovescape Novels, an art
project exploring the wide 'invisible world' of the landscape of love in which
unfolds the light of civilization

Discovering
Love

Room 1

of a literary art
project exploring the wide landscape of love
by Rolf A. F. Witzsche

Painting a living garden of
invisible shapes
that
shape
us

Based on
the
principle of the lateral lattice of our humanity-
a healing platform bound by strands of love?

The opening novel, Discovering Love, begins with a light that is
as bewildering as when the morning sun is seen from the edge of a dark
forest. However, there are no footprints for one to follow beyond the
'forest.' The land there comes into the light as an
unexplored world. The terrain is uncertain and so are its dangers. Only the light itself appears certain, though not necessarily
the future, although that seems far away.

The novel opens with a brief glimpse forward into
the future, all the way to the eleventh book,
introducing
names that do not even emerge until part way through the series. Isn't that how
the real world often is? The kaleidoscope in the real world is often far richer than what appears
to the eye at the first glance, and we seldom are wise enough to recognize the full
scope of it. And so, the brief vista at the beginning of the novel that
takes one forward in time to a dark scene sets up a contrast that brings
to light the beautiful moments when the world was bright, fresh, and the
flow of love new, rich, and innocent, though it was even then not without
its own momentous challenges.

Thus the opening scene, which unfolds like a
requiem that is also a celebration of life, which renders much of bulk of the
series as a flashback, a glow of the Sublime that begins as softly and preciously as the morning
sunlight. Of course the morning light is always rich with its burst of sudden
brilliance when the horizon is not obscured and the night is left far
behind with its dreams that are uncertain. In the sparkling glitter
of the new day even the weight of future challenges is barely
recognized, and when it does impose itself one tends to walk away from the
challenges instead of facing up to them. Though the challenges do
come into view, some that have been unmet and grown larger to the present
day. An appendix contains some of the details of the greatest challenges
in today's world of a type that are generally unrecognized, which the
novel merely hints at.

Perhaps there is a profound wisdom in that, since
in the 'innocent days' the discovery of the Sublime expressed in unfettered profound principles,
still lays in the future where science gently opens doors that
should be opened but which remain largely closed until then.

Against this background the novel opens up a kaleidoscope
of vistas of erupting small challenges that seem big at the time. And
those are met courageously as the morning light grows brighter, though
they foreshadow bigger, future challenges. However, what do those bigger
challenges matter when the world is bright? As one of the protagonists
says, "what have the challenges got to do with anything, do they
change the principle involved?" And there are great challenges
involved, arising from the principle of the lateral lattice of our
humanity, a scientific concept that has its roots in the work of Mary
Baker Eddy*1, America's most accomplished scientific mental healer of the
19th and 20th Century. She pioneered the science of God, man, and
spiritual being. The German poet Friedrich Schiller pioneered the concept of
the Sublime and its highest expression in the humanity of mankind. In the
novel both aspects are combined.

The novel begins faintly. It starts a sequence of a person's self-discovery in the
bewildering world of unexpected discoveries of facets of love that seems
to belong to the world of fairy tales, but which should be ideally our
actual world. Thus that the question lingers as to why
any facet of love should not be a part of the real world in which we live,
for love is life, and life is love.

In the light of the ongoing rapidly expanding global crisis,
devastating the financial, economic, housing, food, strategic and
political scenes, some of which are taking on new forms almost daily now, the first
episode of the novels,
"Discovering Love," has been updated and expanded in order to
provide a richer background for the healing that is required. The updating
involved a six month
period of intensive effort, starting early in 2008. The result is now
available as the 2008 Extended Edition. It is available on-line for reading on the
internet, for free. It is also available free for downloading in PDF
format (6x9 version), and it is available in
printed form at a modest cost for customs printing (one at a time as
ordered).

Is it possible for a gardener
to embrace but one single flower in a vast garden
and close the eyes to all the rest of the profusion of life?

Helen
a Healer

A person who
loves is also a healer.
Should there be limits to this love?

The
Lateral Lattice of Hearts

Based on a remarkable true
event.

Shoot Them!

The radio crackles: "I
have a woman with children here. Shall I let them go?"
"Shoot them!"
"Shoot children?"
"Small rebels grow up to become big rebels. Shoot them!"

A Gardener in Love with a Rose?

Falling in love is a
paradox
in which we discover that the beauty that we cherish
is a reflection of our own heart and soul.

In
the Brilliance of a Night

It should be called an
invitation to heaven,
a sex story that honors the Mosaic Decalogue.

Other spaces in this room of the gallery:

A requiem that is a celebration
A love letter of regret
A mission that cannot fail
Dimensions in the study of love
Honesty versus shame
An invitation to dance
Morning-glow
A spark of hope amidst shadows returning

*1 - A free online version of Mary Baker Eddy's book, Science
and Heath with Key to the Scriptures (1875), which has brought healing to
countless people for more than a century, has been added as an appendix to this
website.

(c) copyright 1989 Rolf
A. F. Witzsche applies
to all novels
of the series, The Lodging for the Rose (above)
including the free online
presentation. For (c) copyright details refer to "chapters" page.
(c) copyright 2003 applies to the web-presentation technology
- All rights are reserved, Rolf A. F. Witzsche -
You are most welcome to download pages for your personal use.